Blue Shield of California is waiving the DE 9C requirement for groups with 5 or more enrolling employees with these parameters:
Groups must submit the Eligibility/Participation Attestation along...
Effective immediately, Blue Shield of California is allowing a cross-border health plan to be written alongside Blue Shield and another carrier. That includes SIMNSA (Sistemas Medicos Nacionales, S.A....
Blue Shield of California is changing their 2019 commissions for off-exchange mirror plans to a level 5%. This change applies to groups with January 1, 2019 effective dates and after. The commissions ...
Blue Shield of California now lists Pomona Valley Medical Group as in-network for their Access+ HMO and their Trio HMO for 2019. The Independent Practice Association is comprised of individual private...
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Blue Shield is introducing two new medical off-exchange plans to their small business portfolio: • Bronze PPO 6500/50% OffEx available on Full PPO and Tandem PPO networks • Gold HMO 0/30 Of...
Blue Shield of California is issuing rebate checks to certain employers in accordance with the Affordable Care Act’s medical loss ratio (MLR) provisions. The company owes $19.2 million in rebates to 3...
To help make new sales submissions easier, Blue Shield of California will count a refusal of coverage due to individual coverage as a valid waiver beginning with October 1, 2018 effective dates. Emplo...
Blue Shield of California is relaxing underwriting participation requirements for groups with five or more enrolled employees to just 25% of their medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans. Ru...
You are invited to join Blue Shield’s Small Business Sales team for an in-depth preview of their 2019 portfolio. Come join Blue Shield of California and discover more ways to offer clients dependable,...
Blue Shield of California reports the following Q4 rate action:
HMO rates, including Trio, decrease -2.1% in the fourth quarter, annualized for a 1.8% increase in 2018.
PPO rates increase 0.7%...
Blue Shield of California will be moving members from the Blue Shield administered pod to alternate IPAs. In an effort to lower the cost of health care, Blue Shield will be closing the San Mateo Blue ...
Blue Shield is pleased to announce that Blue Shield of California and Stanford Health have signed a new multi-year agreement June 1, 2018 for Stanford Medical Center and its physicians and Affinity ...